Starting to update the OP with the passenger's boarding the E3 Super Mario Hype Hat Express! Remember to keep booking your tickets to get on board!

So few people aboard! D:

My tagging was me joining but guess I wasn't clear :p

Thread is dead and I don't know why. Might as well get it going.

So, there has been quite a lot of people upset over the length of the presentation (about 30 but could be slightly longer. Nintendo hasn't said the exact time). I went back and compared it to the other presentation and you wouldn't believe the amount of fluff in these. I'll demonstrate with E3 2014 since everyone claims it was the best

0:00 - 3:30 Nintendo starts with a Robot Chicken skit and then there is the trailer for Miis in Smash Bros for Wii U/3DS
3:30 - 8:17 - Sakurai talks about Miis, shows a small trailer and gives the release dates
8:17 - 13:10 - Reggie talks about amiibo
13:10 - 18:13 - Yoshi Wolly World Developer Story
18:13 - 19:50 - Captain Toad Treasure Tracker Trailer and another 20 second sketch
19:50 - 23:33 - Breath of the Wild Tease (then unnammed)
23:33 - 25:11 - Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire
25:11 - 27:04 - Skit and Bayonetta 2 trailer
27:04 - 30:16 - Developer Story for Hyrule Warriors
30:16 - 33:06 - Trailers for Kirby and Xenoblade
33:53 - 34:53 - Super Mario Maker
34:53 - 41:15 - Trailer for Splatoon with a developer story. The trailer was only about 2 minutes long
41:15 - 46:44 - Reggie talks about some stuff, there is another Smash trailer and Miyamoto teases Star Fox

So almost the entire presentation was filler. If you count the developer stories, the fluff intro, amiibo, and Breath of the Wild tease, it takes up about 30 minutes of the presentation. Most of these can just be done in the Treehouse and it seems that's how Nintendo is moving (they did this alot in 16). I should also note that most of these games didn't come out in 2014. Only Captain Toad, Smash, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta and Pokemon actually came out that year. If you only look at the stuff that came out that year (including all of the talking about those games), its about 15 minutes, 20 if you include the amiibo. Moreover, Nintendo's Directs have been far more to the point than the original E3 Directs were.

So if anyone is worried about the length, it will be fine.

Nope, still worried! Who's to say the Spotlight wont have a lot of filler aswell.

They've removed 8 minutes just with today's direct, so I'm not worried.

Let me see if I can quell your fears.

Since Kimishima has become president, Nintendo's presentations have been more focused. The Nintendo Directs use to have silly skits in them, but now its almost 100% news. The Switch Presentation was the same save for the ice cube thing. At E3 2016, Nintendo had the developers there for the Treehouse, so they wouldn't have a lot of Developer Stories like in 14 and 15.

Now, Nintendo has indicated that the presentation will focus on 2017 (which is likely why its only 30 minutes). There are only 4 games coming out in 2017 that would be shown off that we know about: Mario, Xenoblade, FE Warriors and Rabbids (some speculate that it will be at Ubisoft's press conference, but I wouldn't bet on that). In 2014, even with developer stories, the four games releasing that year only took up about 15 minutes. Nintendo, on average, releases 8 first party games (Nintendo, IS, Retro NDCude and Monolith). Nintendo has shown off/released 6 (7 if you count Mario Kart). So we can expect there to be another game or two releasing this year. If we expect there will be two trailers and some discussion about the game, that would be 7-10 minutes. This leaves enough time to tease one or two games for Winter 2018 (which I expect they'll do).

Nintendo wont have the most exciting conference in terms of announcements. Sony will likely have more. The difference is all of the games coming from Nintendo will be playable in the next 12 months. 

Well hope they don't focus too much on Arms, Splatoon 2 and Pokken DX. That could be like 10-15 minutes right there...

Oh I'm just exaggerating for drama, sorry to make you write all that, but it's a good read for anyone! All Nintendo has to do is reveal Animal Crossing and I'm happy regardless of whatever else they have to show hehe. I'm very confident that will happen given the mobile game and how we're way past overdue for new AC game. There's no way in hell they're gonna let one of their best selling series sit on the backburner!

hmm hello

Jumping onto the Hype Train!